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BREAKING: Denver and Boulder issue “stay-at-home” orders, list bike shops as essential businesses
Bicycle Colorado ^ | 24 Mar 20 | van Heuven, et al

Posted on 03/24/2020 10:13:08 AM PDT by real saxophonist

Supporter,

Bike shops are open for business.

Yesterday, Denver and Boulder issued orders asking all residents to stay at home unless performing essential activities. The orders include bike shops as an essential business that can stay open to provide support for Coloradans and visitors during the COVID-19 outbreak, and encourage bicycling as a form of outdoor activity.

You can read Denver's full announcement here, and Boulder's here. Denver's announcement did not originally include bike shops as essential businesses, but was amended last night to do so.

As two of Colorado's most populous cities, we are optimistic Denver and Boulder's stay-at-home orders are the standard other communities around the state will follow should they issue similar orders in the days and weeks to come.

More and more, Coloradans are depending on their bikes to get around, to exercise, to take care of their mental health and to boost their immune systems. They also rely on bike shops to keep their tool for recreation, transportation and health in working order.

These announcements underscore the importance of bicycling during this time of crisis, and we’re proud Denver and Boulder have taken the lead in including bike shops in its list of essential businesses.

We’re also proud to have been a part of making this happen. Over the past several days, the Bicycle Colorado Policy Team has been hard at work discussing the importance of bicycling remaining an encouraged activity and bike shops remaining open with state and local policymakers.

We know that:

Bicycling is compatible with social distancing, and is an incredibly low-risk form of transportation and recreation with regard to virus infection.

Bicycling is an activity that offers both physical and mental health benefits—important in times like these.

Bicycling is an essential mode of transportation.

Bicycles may offer approved business, health and governmental functions with resilient solutions to transport or deliver necessary goods.

Many people depend on bikes as their only means of getting around.

We’ve taken these points directly to policymakers in Denver, Boulder, the Governor’s Office, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, the Colorado Department and Transportation, the Colorado Energy Office and to local officials in Colorado cities and counties across the state. We’re proud that this work has paid off in two communities, and optimistic others will follow should the need for any stay-at-home order arise.

At Bicycle Colorado, we envision a Colorado where riding a bicycle is always safe and convenient for everyone, where bicycling is the top choice for recreation and everyday trips, and where the benefits of bicycling are experienced and valued by all people in our state. There is no more important time than during the COVID-19 outbreak to fight to make this vision a reality, which is why we’ll continue working tirelessly for you. If you want to help make it possible, please join or renew as a member today.

Thanks for your support,

Piep van Heuven,

Policy Director

Jack Todd,

Senior Communications and Policy Manager

Molly McKinley,

Grassroots Advocacy Manager

and the entire Bicycle Colorado staff


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1 posted on 03/24/2020 10:13:08 AM PDT by real saxophonist
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To: real saxophonist

Bike shops essential business in Denver?

Yep, yes they are. They would be a lot of very angry, cycle obsessed, Democrat people there if they were closed.


2 posted on 03/24/2020 10:17:01 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ping


3 posted on 03/24/2020 10:17:19 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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To: real saxophonist

Cannabis shops are also essential in Colorado
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cannabis-shops-thrive-essential-businesses-coronavirus-pandemic/story?id=69662619


4 posted on 03/24/2020 10:17:52 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: real saxophonist

Bike shops, booze and buds.


5 posted on 03/24/2020 10:19:50 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: real saxophonist

Democrat dictators.


6 posted on 03/24/2020 10:20:24 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: chris37
I got an email from my shop saying they were open, but limiting the number of people in the shop at one time.

I have to replace a tire with a nail in it. (Thanks Home Depot!)

7 posted on 03/24/2020 10:21:15 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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To: chris37

Republican bike riders just fix their own bikes.


8 posted on 03/24/2020 10:21:26 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: real saxophonist

The leftists love this. They can pick and choose which businesses can stay open and which have to close.

This love this power.


9 posted on 03/24/2020 10:21:29 AM PDT by david1292
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To: real saxophonist

Only way i can think of a bicycle as a necessity is to make songs like this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEpD9RH-Wds


10 posted on 03/24/2020 10:22:13 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Menehune56
Essential businesses

Colorado: marijuana & bicycles.

Illinois: marijuana & gun stores.

11 posted on 03/24/2020 10:24:04 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

BTW that song is my ringtone.


12 posted on 03/24/2020 10:24:13 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: real saxophonist
Hancock ordered liquor stores and cannabis shops closed. Less 2 hours later he reversed that after mass outcry. Meanwhile: The Denver mayor has ordered a total shutdown. Now you will need an internal passport to move around. Peter Boyles opened his show today with "The Letter" that was left on his keyboard. It is addressed To Whom It May Concern and allows "the bearer of this letter" to travel within Denver city limits. There is another letter that allows the bearer to get gasoline. Papieren Bitte!
13 posted on 03/24/2020 10:24:32 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: chris37
Well just in case you DO have to go out. 😄
14 posted on 03/24/2020 10:24:51 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: real saxophonist

If you didn’t add the part about replacing a tire with a nail in it we might have thought you meant a dope shop.


15 posted on 03/24/2020 10:26:15 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: AndyJackson

LOL!

But I am not sure that there are any Republican bike riders in Denver.

Maybe one.


16 posted on 03/24/2020 10:27:09 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: sevlex

internal passport?

Imagine the long lines people will have to stand in to get those.


17 posted on 03/24/2020 10:28:04 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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18 posted on 03/24/2020 10:28:22 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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To: chris37

Better bike shops than mass transit.
Just saying


19 posted on 03/24/2020 10:28:40 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: chris37

I know we can’t post Onion stuff so I thought Babylon Bee but no.


20 posted on 03/24/2020 10:28:55 AM PDT by xp38
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